Backspace acts like Delete, Delete acts like Backspace

Backspace acts like Delete, Delete acts like Backspace

[beddes]

A few days ago, I grabbed the emacs-23.4 tarball and built it on two systems,
a Red Hat Enterprise 5.5 system and an AIX 5.2 system (neither of which can
be upgraded).

So far I've found that my builds seem to be working perfectly on the Red Hat
system, and almost perfectly on the AIX system.

The problem on the AIX system is when I ssh in from a normal terminal and my
$TERM is 'xterm', my backspace and delete keys remove characters in the
opposite direction from what they should. *But*, if I instead first fire up
an aixterm, then run emacs, backspace and delete do what I expect.

Neither setting normal-erase-is-backspace-mode to 0 or 1 works.

Is there a way to fix this? Anything I can do to further diagnose the
problem?

My gut feeling is that I missed a flag when I ran my initial ./configure
before building on the AIX system.

Thanks!
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Re: Backspace acts like Delete, Delete acts like Backspace

[suvayu ali]

On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 22:34, beddes@gmail.com <beddes@gmail.com> wrote:
> My gut feeling is that I missed a flag when I ran my initial ./configure
> before building on the AIX system.

You can do M-x report-emacs-bug. The generated buffer should have all
the ./configure options used. That should help you clear your doubt.

GL

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Re: Backspace acts like Delete, Delete acts like Backspace

[beddes]

Thank you, Suvayu.

The bug report tells me what options I did use (only '--without-x'), but I
was hoping for a way to find .configure options that could help that I
didn't know about and call .configure with.

For my next step I'll iterate through setting my $TERM environment variable
to the different possibilities offered in share/emacs/23.4/lisp/term/ to see
if anything works. (Originally, my $TERM is set to 'xterm'). So far the
'vt???' set makes my backspace remove the previous character like I want,
but my delete is still wrong, removing that previous characters rather than
next characters.

Thanks again!


suvayu ali wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 22:34, beddes@gmail.com <beddes@gmail.com> wrote:
>> My gut feeling is that I missed a flag when I ran my initial ./configure
>> before building on the AIX system.
> 
> You can do M-x report-emacs-bug. The generated buffer should have all
> the ./configure options used. That should help you clear your doubt.
> 
> GL
> 
> -- 
> Suvayu
> 
> Open source is the future. It sets us free.
> 
> 
> 
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Re: Backspace acts like Delete, Delete acts like Backspace

[suvayu ali]

On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 16:39, beddes@gmail.com <beddes@gmail.com> wrote:
> The bug report tells me what options I did use (only '--without-x'), but I
> was hoping for a way to find .configure options that could help that I
> didn't know about and call .configure with.

How about './configure --help'?

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